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    Not Just New Mexico's Senator: Senator Pete V. Domenici's Leadership
    Not Just New Mexico's Senator: Senator Pete V. Domenici's Leadership
    Not Just New Mexico's Senator: Senator Pete V. Domenici's Leadership
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    Not Just New Mexico's Senator: Senator Pete V. Domenici's Leadership

    By Martin J. Janowski

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    Many New Mexicans knew of Senator Pete V. Domenici during times when he worked on behalf of their specific interest or concern. That number grew substantially through his accomplishments over a 36- year Senate career, so much so that nearly everyone in the state proudly referred to him as “their Senator in Washington.”

    This book takes a more focused path, discussing four complex and critical issues of national and international importance where Senator Domenici took a leadership role developing solutions to long-standing problems. The author developed each chapter from information gathered through interviews with Senator Domenici and key staff members who worked for the Senator on the specific issue. The material presented allows the reader a firsthand look at the Senator’s perseverance and willingness to work with both Republicans and Democrats to achieve the results he believed to be in America’s best interest. Much of what is written here received little media attention at the time.

    Each topic is self-contained, so pick the chapter that interests you the most. The book addresses only four subjects, a small sample of a long Senate career, but provides clear evidence that Senator Pete V. Domenici was “not just New Mexico’s Senator.”
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    Release dateMar 1, 2010
    ISBN9781936744817
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      Not Just New Mexico's Senator - Martin J. Janowski

      NOT JUST NEW MEXICO’S

      SENATOR

      Senator Pete V. Domenici’s Leadership

      on Four Issues Affecting Our Nation’s Future

      Written and Edited by

      Martin J. Janowski

      Rio Grande Books in collaboration with

      The Domenici Public Policy Institute,

      New Mexico State University

      Copyright © 2010, 2014 The Domenici Public Policy Institute, New Mexico State University

      Published by Río Grande Books

      925 Salamanca NW

      Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM 87107-5647

      505-344-9382 www.nmsantos.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Book Design: Paul Rhetts

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Janowski, Martin J.

      Not just New Mexico’s senator : Senator Pete V. Domenici’s leadership on

      four issues affecting our nation’s future / by Martin J. Janowski.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 978-1-890689-39-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      978-1-936744-81-7 (ebook formats)

      1. Domenici, Pete. 2. Legislators--United States--Biography. 3. United

      States. Congress. Senate--Biography. 4. Political leadership--United States--

      Case studies. I. Title.

      E840.8.D66J36 2010

      328.73092--dc22

      [B]

      2010010377

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Foreword

      About Senator Domenici

      Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Proliferation

      Senator Domenici and The Congressional Budget Process: An Inseparable Legacy

      The Energy Policy Act of 2005… Third Time’s a Charm for Senator Domenici

      The Quest for Mental Health Care Parity

      About The Editor

      Acknowledgments

      This book would not have been possible without the collaboration of many people who contributed to its successful publication. If we missed mentioning any names, we apologize in advance.

      In addition to Senator Domenici himself, his former staff members provided key dates and details in the chapters. Many of these valuable staff aides went on to successful careers when they left the Senator’s staff.

      A valuable contributor to the Budget Chapter was former Senate Budget Committee staff director Steve Bell, who left Senator Domenici’s office in 1985 and became Managing Director of Salomon Brothers, opening the company’s Washington, D.C. office. In 1997, he returned to become Senator Domenici’s Chief of Staff and now works at the Bipartisan Policy Center as a Visiting Scholar.

      Lisa Epifani, who served as counsel on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee staff, and contributed to the Energy Chapter, went to work at the White House as Special Assistant to the President on the National Economic Council. She then served as the Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. She now works in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Van Ness Feldman, P.C.

      Alex Flint, who started working for Senator Domenici when he was only 20 years old, became the youngest Majority Chief Counsel of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the Senate’s history, after serving as Domenici’s Appropriations Committee staff aide. He now serves as senior vice-president for governmental affairs for the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). His insights were valuable for the chapters on energy and nuclear nonproliferation.

      Dr. Siegfried Hecker, a world recognized expert on nuclear arms and proliferation and a former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, provided his views of the real value of Senator Domenici’s role in nuclear non-proliferation activities. Currently the co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, he was awarded the 2009 Enrico Fermi Award, one of the most prestigious science and technology awards by the U.S. Government.

      Bill Hoagland, Senate Budget Committee staff director, provided key insights to the chapter on the budget process. He went on to serve as Majority Leader Bill Frist’s Director of Budget and Appropriation and now is vice president for public policy for CIGNA.

      Dr. Peter Lyons came to Washington on loan from Los Alamos National Laboratory to serve as Senator Domenici’s science advisor. He became a professional staff member for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and provided information for both the chapter on the Energy Bill and his work with Senator Domenici on Nuclear Non-Proliferation. He served as Commissioner on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2005-2009 and now serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy for the Department of Energy.

      Key details on the inside workings on the passage of the Energy Policy Act were also given by Frank Macchiarola, who served as Minority Counsel on the Senate Energy Committee succeeding Alex Flint and now serves as Republican Staff Director on the Senate’s HELP (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) Committee.

      For the chapter on Mental Health Care Parity, Ed Hild, who was Senator Domenici’s key staffer working on the legislation, and now serves as Legislative Director for Senator Lisa Murkowski, provided background information, as did Mrs. Nancy Domenici, who worked for years as an advocate for mental health care.

      A special thanks goes out to Dean Garrey Carruthers of the NMSU Business School and his Special Assistant Sharon Jones for their support in bringing this book to publication.

      Editor’s Note

      The four issues in this book represent a small portion of Senator Domenici’s accomplishments throughout his 36-year Senate career. This snapshot provides valuable insights to the reader of the Senator’s hard work, perseverance and ability to work with members of Congress and Presidents of both parties. These issues provide four of the best examples of practical, bipartisan solutions to some of our nation’s most difficult problems.

      All efforts have been made to relate facts, dates, and events as accurately as possible. Any inaccuracies that are discovered will be corrected in future printings.

      Foreword

      by Dean Garrey Carruthers, NMSU College of Business, Vice President for Economic Development

      It is my pleasure to write this foreword for Not Just New Mexico’s Senator, the first of several books and publications which will chronicle the marvelous and important contributions Senator Pete V. Domenici made to the world, our country, and to the great State of New Mexico in his forty plus years as a public servant.

      The author and the Senator have selected four specific topics to be covered in a popular style. They embody only a few of Senator Domenici’s accomplishments throughout his long Senate career. Each chapter provides clear examples to the reader of the Senator’s hard work, perseverance and ability to develop practical, bipartisan solutions with members of Congress and Presidents of both parties.

      At the First Annual Domenici Legacy Public Policy Conference honoring the Senator, held on August 20-22, 2008 at New Mexico State University, it was an awakening for all to discover the breadth and depth of his involvement in some of the most historical public policy initiatives of our time.

      Speaker after speaker, from advocacy groups, the current administration, officials from previous administrations, current and former colleagues in the House of Representatives and Senate, former Directors of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory, and key staffers discussed Senator Domenici’s contributions to national issues such as behavioral health, energy, and national security policy and his pioneering work on the federal budget process. We just had no idea that our Senator Pete was so deeply involved in so many national and international issues.

      You need to know that we New Mexicans knew him best as Senator Pete, Saint Pete, Senator D., or just Pete. He was the go to guy for appropriations and/or legislation which directly benefited New Mexico citizens, businesses, local governments, the laboratories, Indian Nations, Universities, the military, and many causes, from economic development to water resource development. This constituency was represented in his campaigns as the People for Pete, the folks who were so appreciative of all that he had done for New Mexico that they donated large and small amounts of money and plenty of energy to see that he was reelected. Senator Domenici was always reelected by large margins and secretly wished, I think, to win 100% of the vote, because he felt like he had delivered.

      I have known the Senator for nearly forty years, having met him during his first campaign for the Senate. My wife, Kathy, was a volunteer in that campaign. There were few Republicans in those days and New Mexico has never approached parity between the two parties over my years. Senator Domenici, reached out to all as he campaigned and served, developing a reputation for being dangerously close to being non-partisan at times. As I wandered down the political path, Senator Domenici was always there to help; when I was Chairman of the State Republican Party, when I was nominated to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior and ran into to some roadblocks, and when I later successfully sought the Governorship of New Mexico. My favorite story from the Governor’s campaign was from a commercial he made on my behalf. He stated, I want my New Mexicans to vote for Garrey Carruthers, which caused a great stir among Democrats about his claiming all New Mexicans. His actions left the impression that, to Senator Domenici, it was always about New Mexico, his many friends and constituents.

      Thus, this book represents a portion of Senator Domenici’s Senate career that many New Mexicans never read about in their local newspapers or heard about in local radio or television news reports.

      The first, on the Energy Policy Acts of 2005, 2006, and 2007, demonstrate the willingness of Senator Domenici to bring all parties to the table and keep them there until an agreement is reached and all issues have been addressed.

      The second chapter, on the Congressional budget process, shows where Senator Domenici changed Senate rules that had been in place for almost 200 years and affects the way business is conducted in the Senate even today.

      A third chapter on reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation, reveals the creative side of Senator Domenici as he lays out a new course in reducing excess nuclear weapons and weapons materials in the former Soviet Union. These goals can only be accomplished by Domenici’s close relationships with the two New Mexico national laboratories and his legislative abilities to create funding for the programs where none existed before.

      The fourth, on mental health care

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